Fairport Convention - Nine (1973 Remaster) (2005) Lossless
BAND/ARTIST: Fairport Convention
- Title: Nine
- Year Of Release: 1973 (2005)
- Label: Island Records
- Genre: Folk Rock
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 55:42
- Total Size: 343 Mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. The Hexamshire Lass
02. Polly on the Shore
03. The Brilliancy Medley & Cherokee Shuffle
04. To Althea From Prison
05. Tokyo
06. Bring 'em Down
07. Big William
08. Pleasure & Pain
09. Possibly Parsons Green
Bonus Tracks:
10. The Devil in the Kitchen (Fiddlestix)
11. George Jackson
12. Pleasure & Pain
13. Six Days on the Road
01. The Hexamshire Lass
02. Polly on the Shore
03. The Brilliancy Medley & Cherokee Shuffle
04. To Althea From Prison
05. Tokyo
06. Bring 'em Down
07. Big William
08. Pleasure & Pain
09. Possibly Parsons Green
Bonus Tracks:
10. The Devil in the Kitchen (Fiddlestix)
11. George Jackson
12. Pleasure & Pain
13. Six Days on the Road
Fairport Convention's ninth album is their most uneven. The group shows extraordinary virtuosity and musical instincts on folk-based tracks such as "The Hexamshire Lass" and "The Brilliancy Medley & Cherokee Shuffle" (which features some of the best mandolin playing you're ever likely to hear from an English band), but on numbers like "Polly on the Shore" and "To Althea From Prison," where the band supplies the music to traditional lyrics, they simply fall flat -- it isn't even that the playing is bad, so much as that the failed numbers are uniformly lugubrious in the way they're treated. Part of the problem lies with the fact that while Lucas and Donahue were good guitarists, they weren't terribly interesting -- where Richard Thompson always came up with something surprising and unexpected on Fairport's songs, Lucas and Donahue stick with fairly routine pop music sounds, more in keeping with the Eagles than the group that recorded Liege and Lief, Full House, and House Full. Lucas' "Bring 'Em Down" is a decent song, with some strong singing and playing by the composer and a lovely and powerful fiddle solo by Swarbrick, but it overstays its welcome and loses its cohesion -- "Sloth" it is not. Too much of the album is taken up by easily forgotten contemporary-style rockers like "Big William" and throwaways such as the countrified "Pleasure and Pain"; not even the upbeat, riff heavy "Possibly Parsons Green" makes up for this problem. And the rather plain cover art didn't help matters any when it came to selling this record.
Folk | Rock | FLAC / APE
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